At tonight’s game, the Sharks Foundation will hold a charity auction and collect donations to benefit flood relief and recovery efforts in Nashville. Anyone who contributes will be eligible for a drawing to win an autographed, limited edition canvas artwork of forward Scott Nichol, who played for the Predators for four seasons before signing with San Jose last summer.

“The damage to the city has been horrible and any help from our Sharks fans will mean a lot to the Nashville community,” Nichol said in a prepared statement released by the team. “It’s a great city with great people. My family really enjoyed our time there and wish the entire area the best in their recovery efforts.”

The Sharks Foundation auction will be at a booth located just outside Section 124 on the main concourse with all proceeds benefiting The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

Heavy rains in early May caused massive flooding in downtown Nashville area, including the newly renamed Bridgestone Arena, where the Predators play. Over a foot of standing water found its way into the locker rooms and main offices.

Other San Jose ties to the Nashville community include Jed Ortmeyer, a Predator from 2007-2009, and ex-Shark Marcel Goc, who was signed as a free agent by Nashville in the off-season.

****Mentioned here awhile ago that Randy Hahn, Drew Remenda and Brodie Brazil were going head-to-head with the Warriors’ announcing team in the Northern California Emmy competition for sports play-by-play. Now learning that the hockey guys won the “Craft Achievement” award over the roundball crew this past weekend, so figure I’d pass that along, too.

David Pollak

David Pollak has been following the NHL forever and at the Mercury News as an editor or reporter since 1987. For almost a decade he wrote about the Sharks as the paper's Fan in the Stands before joining the sports department in 2001. He became the Sharks beat writer before the 2007-08 season and began this blog at that time. You can also follow him on Twitter at @PollakOnSharks.

i go to bars to drink and play bar games with my friends. i watch hockey, to enjoy the game. not sit there and socialize like a 15 year old at a slumber party.

“They aren’t the faces of the game.”
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i didnt say they were the faces of the GAME. they are the face of the organization. they are who we SEE the most. they are who talks the most. they are the ones who connect the fans to the players. they are the face of the sharks.

Beerslayer

Must be a dead day on the Hawks blog for all the Hawks fans to be so bored that they have to come and troll this blog. You guys need to get a life. Seriously.

K. Smith: I hope you don’t live in San Jose. If you hate it so much here, go somewhere else. ASAP.

Hands of Stone exhibition and a strong will

k. smith likes black cawks in and around his mouth

Original 6

Uncalled for stone hands. You guys are baited so easily. Exactly how far are you from Ssssan Fransssisssco???

Rose

K. Smith:

You are a waste of my time. If you can’t reread your posts and see what a negative person you are, all the more reason you need therapy. I haven’t seen you “pointing out” anything without some trash talking hostility drenched through almost all of your posts. Have a nice day.

Original 6:

Have you seen me say anything critical about your team? Your Hawks are a very good team, one of the best teams in the league, and I respect their talent and game play.

But you come here to this blog only so you can post some of the whining drivel that you call “your opionion” yet try to call us out when we don’t agree with you? You wouldn’t BE here if you didn’t care. I don’t see how anything I said has any tone of needing to be coddled. As for my supposed “mental fragility”, as a Sharks fan you clearly have no idea of the passionate loyalty I have for my team, regardless of whether they win or not…..

I was going to continue and decided this is a waste of my time. I stated that I like Randy and Drew commentaries the best. I didn’t say anything negative about anyone else commentating on the games. You want to categorize that as “going off the deep end”? Be my guest.

Enjoy the game tonight everyone!

Go Sharks!!!!

RedLight

WOW, KSMITH & ORIG6, sounds like you guys?gals? stretched some undies/panties? how did we get off the subject of hockey anyway…..byt the way PERSON WITH VERY LONG TAG NAME, i think it would be fun to have drunk people falling all over me with excitement after scoring a goal as long as they were of the opposite sex! hmmmm then again in some cases i can see that being a problem…..

Original 6

Rose, to think I was addressing ONLY you, well…aren’t we full of ourself? No, I was addressing what I’ve been reading from most of the shark fans over the past few days. But enough of this crap. Let’s lace em up and get down to actually playing the game! Until we meet again….

GO HAWKS!

Original 6

Redlight/Ksmith….good luck tonight. Would love to go up 2-0, but if we don’t we accomplished what we needed to do….split and regain home ice. Gotta go. C ya!

RedLight

Yes, back at you! it will be a great game no matter the outcome, but if Q has them focused like they did in game 6 against the nuks, well get it done. either way, i just want to see a good game again. good luck to you too shark fans. get over the announcers and go find a good bar, enjoy a cold one, some wings , i know its not on your diet, but go ahead and splurge.

BIG GAME HOSSA

GO HAWKS!

K. Smith

Back at you Redlight and Original 6 – Enjoy the hockey. Should be a humdinger of a game. I’m looking forward to a great game. I hope the others try to undo their undies and enjoy the game, I know it will be hard since they are lost without their beloved “faces” of the game to lead the way.

Dirty

If anyone needs a quick hockey fix, NBC Universal sports is broadcasting Team USA vs. Team ITA 2nd period just started and USA is up 1-0

sj-swede

Hey K smith, seems to me you the one complaining all the time, quit baiting and write something intelligent about hockey instead.

Z.SharkRA

CHICAGO TROLLS GO HOME!! Go say idiotic stuff on your own message boards. Tonight the Sharks should smack some chi-town baby-faces up-side the head, can I get a ‘what what’?!!…Sharks’ll be puttin’ on some HURT to yer bleckhawks tonight.

K. Smith

#112. I would but it would be lost on this audience. See post #113. That’s about as good as it gets here.

SanDiegoSharksFan

you guys are all pathetic today, what with all the announcer complaining and K. Smith’s repeated and ridiculously condescending posts.

i am officially done with this post until K Smith is gone forever. it’s not worth weeding through his idiocy any more to find the nuggets of wisdom and entertainment.

Sorry DP but you just lost one fan here. Email me when the moron is gone.